What on earth do Information Supply Chains have to do with horse meat lasagne? Many of you will recall the furore back in 2013 when there was a huge recall of frozen lasagne in the UK that contained up to 100% horse meat instead of the labelled beef. That was a failure of a food […]
You’ll often see organisations state ‘innovation’ as one of their core values. This is easy to spot because it is typically written in large letters in a bold font on a poster on the wall under the heading ‘Our Values’. Despite such value statements and indeed a sincere wish to promote innovation, most organisations, particularly […]
In this post, I want to return to the topic of the Internet of Things and look at how thinking in terms of information supply chains can help to identify opportunities. The first thing to think about is how the Internet of Things might enable business transformation. We see three main transformation dimensions; infrastructure, societal and enterprise. […]
Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to work in and with many different organisations; often in a trouble-shooting role. Typically by the time we arrive, things are a mess with symptoms including: a failure to recognise what is really going on within the organisation and events affecting it from outside; unclear and confused thinking at a […]
In the last post, I explored the need for a strategy and roadmap to guide the migration from Google’s deprecated products. In this one, I’ll discuss a methodology which could be used to structure a spatial strategy. At Spatial.IQ this methodology is at the heart of our consultancy and is called LINQ. No matter how […]
We’ve had a lot of really useful input on our posts about the Google / Esri relationship. The predominant reaction is fascination about what this means. The LINQ office is in The Dominion Observatory at the top of the cable car in Wellington, New Zealand. We have a conference room at the top of this historic […]
The Google / Esri announcement has caused a lot of discussion at LINQ aided by really useful feedback from readers of the first blog post. As the biggest upheaval in the spatial community in a decade or more, it deserves some attention. In this post, I want to take a look at some of the […]
We are thrilled to announce that Scott Houston has joined the Spatial.IQ Board as an Independent Director
Over the last few weeks, we’ve noted the deprecation of Google Maps Engine; the ending of the Google Earth API and then last week’s announcement that Google Earth Pro is now free. We’ve been asking ourselves what this means for the Google’s spatial enterprise customers and the picture became much clearer with an announcement from Esri, […]
We are very pleased to announce that after Martin’s news to finish his term with CERA at the end of January next year, that he will be joining the Spatial.IQ team on the 1st February 2015. Martin is no stranger to many in the geospatial sector. He comes with 20 plus years in the industry in […]